This is kind of a creepy day, historically speaking.
It is filled with dark events, I’ll tell you that much right now.

Probably the most famous incident occurred on July 2, in 1937.  Yep.  That is when that shining young star of an aviator….. Amelia Earhart….  and her trusty navigator Fred Noonan……. disappeared over the big blue Pacific Ocean.  They got in a little plane, revved it up,  and decided to fly all the way around the world…. by way of the equator.   Away she went.  For good.

Jump back to the Civil War.  Bad things happened every day during that war.  But on this date in 1863… the Battle of Gettysburg was just getting underway.

A few decades later… in 1881….  President James A. Garfield was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau.   Old Chuck shot Jim at the Washington railroad station. Stubborn Garfield hung on for a while.  He died 2 1/2 months later…. on September 19th to be exact.

Back up to the 20th Century.    On July 2nd…. Ed Delahanty, disappeared.  He was the American and National League batting champ.  This whole deal happened in 1903.  Delahanty was found dead a few days later.  There are varying theories ….  all which have evidence of a drunken accident, OR a suicide, OR even possibly a robbery murder (there were reports of a mysterious man following Delahanty).  At any rate…. strike threeeee, you are out.

On this date in 1940, Hitler orders invasion of England.  It was called Operation Sealion.  No good came from that point on.  War, is….. war.

A whole bunch of other dark and dreary things happened on July 2nd.  For instance, in 1961, Author Ernest Hemingway was as down as a man can be.  He decided to shoot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.  He was quite a writer, I’ll say.   He was only 61 when he did it.  I bet he had a few more stories in him.

But….. quite possibly….  the very worst is this.  Today is Lindsay Lohan’s birthday.

And that… my friends…. is a short account of the dark side of this historical date.

On a brighter note… I guess….  Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana.  I guess that’s brighter.

“Weather forecast for tonight: dark.” – George Carlin